Poetry Film Live's festival in Bristol on October 18 and the 13th Ó Bhéal Poetry Film Festival on November 3 have released their shortlists.

Submissions are open until January 15 for the Northwest Film Forum's 2026 Cadence Video Poetry Festival in Seattle.

A videopoem by Canadian filmmaker Mike Hoolboom with a distinctly prophetic, left-populist flavor.

An exemplary videopoem by Ian Gibbins, blending the natural and the artificial into a poetic whole.

UK poetry filmmaker Helen Dewbery is turning her years of experience in creating poetry films and leading workshops into a book called How to Make a Poetry Film: A handbook for poets. How to Make a Poetry Film is a step-by-step guide to creating a poetry film. Each chapter covers different aspects of poetry film and is designed to build skills and confidence.

UK filmmaker Janet Lees adapted a viral poem by Iraqi British poet Abeer Ameer. She told me in an email, Like many of her poems, this has stayed with me in a visceral way since I read it. For a long time I have been wanting to make a film with Abeer’s poetry, and particularly this poem, but I couldn’t find a way in visually.

Submissions to the Wisconsin-based Midwest Video Poetry Fest opened on 1 June, with a deadline of 1 December. Though this is a screening in the Midwest, we are seeking work from poets, filmmakers and artists from around the country, and even from around the world. We are particularly interested in under-represented voices and works in any of the following categories:

A film by Jane Glennie in collaboration with poet/performer James E. Kenward. Here's the description from Kenward's website: Award-winning Faber and Faber poetry-film director Jane Glennie came together with poet James E. Kenward on 'Dark', made with Jane's unique photo-collage style. The soundtrack features a fresh piano-arrangement of Stravinsky's 'The Rite of Spring' dueted with the spoken poem 'Dark'.

British poet and filmmaker James E. Kenward has a unique approach to musical composition in his poetry films. I wanted to learn a little bit more about that... Dave Bonta: So many otherwise brilliant poetry films are ruined for me by a faux-classical piano soundtrack—aimless major-key tinkling that many people seem to find atmospheric. I grew up listening to actual classical music, though, and this garbage drives me up the wall.

ZEBRA, the world's most prestigious poetry film festival and competition, is fast approaching. Here's the English version of the latest press release from Haus für Poesie.

Videobardo Archive and International Videopoetry Festival, founded in 1996, opens its call for submissions to be part of a new edition of the Festival, which will take place in November in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Vancouer-based poet Fiona Tinwei Lam recites a poem from her 2019 collection Odes & Laments. I found this animation by Quinn Kelly unexpectedly moving—especially when the flow of the creek is replaced by the flow of traffic on a divided highway. Uploaded late last year, the description reads: A poetry video based on a poem about the city's hidden and lost streams.

"Submissions are now Ópen," they tell us. Submissions are open from 1st May – 31st August 2025. Entries made outside of these dates cannot be considered. You may submit as many films as you like – each must interpret or convey a poem (present in its entirety, audibly and/or visually) and have been completed after the 1st of May 2023.

A major American videopoet reflects on how he got into making videopoems and what he's learned along the way.

The Poetic Phonotheque is "a global archive preserving and sharing contemporary poetry through voice, film, and print," based in Copenhagen, with several international partners, including Kultivera in Sweden, Write4Word in Wales, and ArsPoetica.US in the United States, where The Poetic Phonotheque is registered as a nonprofit organization. Their online archive of poetry films is turning into a valuable resource, growing each year with the winners in the poetry-film category from their annual…

Short poetry films from around the world are solicited for The 4th Annual Drumshanbo Written Word Poetry Film Competition.

The upcoming International Video Poetry Festival in Athens will feature 97 films and 33 live performances from 43 countries on Friday 11 and Saturday 12 April at the Empros theater in Athens.

Submissions are open for a brand-new Poetry Film Festival in Bristol from Helen Dewbery and Chaucer Cameron' Poetry Film Live organization.

A new film by Belgian artist and musician Marc Neys, AKA Swoon, deploying text-on-screen for a lesser-known poem by Wallace Stevens. Marc doesn't make videopoems at anything like the rate he used to ten years ago, but it's good to see that he hasn't lost his touch! This one is in support of his latest album, Harmonium (for Wallace)